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The Meskwaki and Anthropologists illuminates how the University of Chicago's innovative Action Anthropology program of ethnographic fieldwork affected the Meskwaki Indians of Iowa. From 1948 to 1958, the Meskwaki community near Tama, Iowa, became effectively a testing ground for a new method of practicing anthropology proposed by anthropologists and graduate students at the University of Chicago in response to pressure from the Meskwaki. Action Anthropology, as the program was called, attempted to more evenly distribute the benefits of anthropology by way of anthropologists helping the Native

Ethnology --- Fox Indians --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Meskwaki Indians --- Mesquakie Indians --- Muskwaki Indians --- Musquakie Indians --- Outagami Indians --- Algonquian Indians --- Indians of North America --- Fieldwork --- History --- Social conditions --- Action Anthropology (Program) --- University of Chicago. --- Influence.